Lindstrøm to Release Collaborative Album With Singer Christabelle

You may know her as Solale

Norwegian space-disco master Hans-Peter Lindstrøm has solidified his legend by recording blissed-out instrumental monoliths like the 20-minute epics on Where You Go I Go Too. But Lindstrøm has also released a pair of great singles, 2003's "Music (In My Mind)" and 2007's "Let's Practise", with a singer named Solale. Both of those tracks took Lindstrøm's perpetual wooziness to a slightly funkier place, and both ended up sounding somehow more disco than just about anything else the man had done. Solale has a confident, flirty voice, which brought a sort of tangible humanity to Lindstrøm's tracks that hadn't been there before.

Well, if you liked those songs, good news: Lindstrøm has teamed up once again with Solale (who has since changed her name to Christabelle) to record an entire full-length, which is immediately one of my most anticipated records of 2010. Real Life Is No Cool is due January 19 from SmalltownSupersound. Lindstrøm and Christabelle's two previous singles are both on the album, but there's a whole lot here we haven't heard yet. Tracklist below:

Real Life Is No Cool:

01 Looking for What 02 Lovesick 03 Let It Happen 04 Keep It Up 05 Music in My Mind 06 Baby Can't Stop 07 Let's Practise 08 So Much Fun 09 Never Say Much 10 High & Low